Resolving The Climate Change Crisis: The Ecological Economics Of Climate Change
by Philip Lawn /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of
a much larger underlying problem – namely, humankind’s
predilection with continuous GDP-growth. Given this starting
point, the world’s high-income nations must begin the transition
to a qualitatively-improving steady-state economy and low-income
nations must follow suit at some stage over the next 20-40 years.
Unless they do, a well-designed emissions protocol will be as
useless as the paper it is written on.
This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of
a much larger underlying problem – namely, humankind’s
predilection with continuous GDP-growth. Given this starting
point, the world’s high-income nations must begin the transition
to a qualitatively-improving steady-state economy and low-income
nations must follow suit at some stage over the next 20-40 years.
Unless they do, a well-designed emissions protocol will be as
useless as the paper it is written on.
Adopting an ecological economic approach, this book sets out why
we must abandon the goal of continuous growth; how we can do so
in a way that improves human well-being; what constitutes a safe
atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases; and what type of
emissions protocol and emissions-trading framework is likely to
achieve a desirable climate change outcome. Failure of the
world’s leaders to achieve these goals will not only put future
human well-being at risk, it will threaten freedom in the
liberal-democratic tradition and international peace.
Adopting an ecological economic approach, this book sets out why
we must abandon the goal of continuous growth; how we can do so
in a way that improves human well-being; what constitutes a safe
atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases; and what type of
emissions protocol and emissions-trading framework is likely to
achieve a desirable climate change outcome. Failure of the
world’s leaders to achieve these goals will not only put future
human well-being at risk, it will threaten freedom in the
liberal-democratic tradition and international peace.